grails incompatible with neo4j - grails

Question

I am trying to develop a sample application using grails and neo4j. I am using grails 3.0.8. I have installed the neo4j plugin and have followed the instructions as mentioned in the documentation. I have updated application.yml to include neo4j credentials. My application.yml looks something like this.
---
grails:
profile: web
codegen:
defaultPackage: sftwitter
info:
app:
name: '#info.app.name#'
version: '#info.app.version#'
grailsVersion: '#info.app.grailsVersion#'
spring:
groovy:
template:
check-template-location: false
---
grails:
mime:
disable:
accept:
header:
userAgents:
- Gecko
- WebKit
- Presto
- Trident
types:
all: '*/*'
atom: application/atom+xml
css: text/css
csv: text/csv
form: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
html:
- text/html
- application/xhtml+xml
js: text/javascript
json:
- application/json
- text/json
multipartForm: multipart/form-data
pdf: application/pdf
rss: application/rss+xml
text: text/plain
hal:
- application/hal+json
- application/hal+xml
xml:
- text/xml
- application/xml
urlmapping:
cache:
maxsize: 1000
controllers:
defaultScope: singleton
converters:
encoding: UTF-8
views:
default:
codec: html
gsp:
encoding: UTF-8
htmlcodec: xml
codecs:
expression: html
scriptlets: html
taglib: none
staticparts: none
---
grails:
neo4j:
type: rest
location: http://localhost:7474/db/data/
username: neo4j
password: welcome123
hibernate:
cache:
queries: false
use_second_level_cache: true
use_query_cache: false
region.factory_class: 'org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.EhCacheRegionFactory'
endpoints:
jmx:
unique-names: true
dataSource:
pooled: true
jmxExport: true
driverClassName: org.h2.Driver
username: sa
password:
environments:
development:
dataSource:
username: neo4j
password: welcome123
dbCreate: create-drop
url: jdbc:h2:mem:devDb;MVCC=TRUE;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
test:
dataSource:
dbCreate: update
url: jdbc:h2:mem:testDb;MVCC=TRUE;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
production:
dataSource:
dbCreate: update
url: jdbc:h2:./prodDb;MVCC=TRUE;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
properties:
jmxEnabled: true
initialSize: 5
maxActive: 50
minIdle: 5
maxIdle: 25
maxWait: 10000
maxAge: 600000
timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis: 5000
minEvictableIdleTimeMillis: 60000
validationQuery: SELECT 1
validationQueryTimeout: 3
validationInterval: 15000
testOnBorrow: true
testWhileIdle: true
testOnReturn: false
jdbcInterceptors: ConnectionState
defaultTransactionIsolation: 2 # TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED
The code executes fine, but when I try to create the instance of a domain I get an error like this.
ERROR org.grails.web.errors.GrailsExceptionResolver - IllegalStateException occurred when processing request: [GET] /person/index
Method on class [neo4j.Person] was used outside of a Grails application. If running in the context of a test using the mocking API or bootstrap Grails correctly.. Stacktrace follows:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: null
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) ~[na:1.8.0_60]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) ~[na:1.8.0_60]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_60]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Method on class [neo4j.Person] was used outside of a Grails application. If running in the context of a test using the mocking API or bootstrap Grails correctly.
at neo4j.PersonController.index(PersonController.groovy:13) ~[main/:na]
at grails.transaction.GrailsTransactionTemplate$2.doInTransaction(GrailsTransactionTemplate.groovy:93) ~[grails-core-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8]
at grails.transaction.GrailsTransactionTemplate.execute(GrailsTransactionTemplate.groovy:90) ~[grails-core-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8]
... 3 common frames omitted
I have done this configuration completely as per the documentation, then why am I getting this error. Is it that the newer versions of grails are having compatibility issues with neo4j or is it that I have made some mistake in the configuration.